Progressive euchre

a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table.

See also: Progressive

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The Progressive Euchre Club arranged with the Vannis for the exclusive use of the floor on Tuesday and Friday nights.
The young men who belonged to the Progressive Euchre Club used to drop in late and risk a tiff with their sweethearts and general condemnation for a waltz with `the hired girls.'
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There was a concert in the afternoon for the patients and a progressive euchre party in the evening.
Mabel Agnes Wright: War & Peace (23 March-13 September 1968)

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